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  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2019 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Russia: A Drama In Three Acts

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein, Sogomon Tarontsi and Lavinia Teodorescu
The collapse of central authority in the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a period of revolutionary transformations for the states that emerged in its wake. The leaders of Russia, the USSR's successor, struggled to reestablish central authority while also seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Policy Change; Policy Making; Economic Systems; Economics; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Non-Renewable Energy; Governance; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Policy; Business History; Lawfulness; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Change Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Russia; Moscow
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  • 02 Aug 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

last year with about 1,200 employees working asynchronously (that is, not on the same schedule, handing off work each day from one employee and one time zone to another) in 75 countries with no headquarters. The View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

on social media," he said. "Unfortunately that displaces millions (spent) in strategy that we in the agency world live on. When you democratize tools in this digital age, you don't have to spend millions to produce content ." By using the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and discussion. “The offshoring... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

and the United States: Dr. Werner G. Seifert, chairman of Deutsche Borse (the German Stock Exchange) and an architect of the planned merger between his Frankfurt-based organization and the London Stock Exchange; James L. Cochrane, senior vice president for View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

4,646 public companies in many industries, headquartered in 46 countries during 2005-2008, when environmental disclosure increased among many global corporations. Controlling for a host of organizational, industry, and national... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

strategies are discussed in the context of the country's challenging political climate. A replacement of an earlier case done in 2003. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707051 Microsoft... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

rerouting through intermediary countries, pointing to an increase in imports from China and a corresponding rise in exports to the United States since 2018 in countries like Vietnam and Mexico as evidence. Due to these concerns, some... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 21 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

she worked on Moroccan agricultural policy with a team of consultants. "I was just an intern," Ashraf says, "but as I looked around the boardroom I realized that not one of these people had ever actually talked to a farmer in Morocco. And yet they were designing a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

Incorrect beliefs are easier to overcome than an ingrained lack of trust. However, as the researchers later demonstrate, even that remedy may prove hard to achieve. Dylan Minor, a visiting assistant professor of business administration in the Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm-level data set in a broad sample of developed and developing countries, which enables us to present both cross-country and... View Details
Keywords: International Financial Integration; Capital Mobility; Firm Entry; Capital Controls; Finance; Integration; Global Range; Capital; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

seemed to be a different kind of conversation going on among the women. I thought it would be worthwhile to bring a group of them together to pursue these conversations further. In addition, I knew that there were (and are) a lot of programs for women around the View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

cash flow to ensure this. Evidence shows that there are limits to venture capital as a solution to the funding gap, especially in countries where public equity markets for venture capital exit are not highly developed. We conclude by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

and 20 percent predict the situation won’t change. The Harvard researchers are hoping this report might help spur Washington to get its act together. “We think this is an American issue, not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue or a high-income or low-income issue.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

three options regarding the exit strategy to be deployed to ensure sustainability. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-019 Whirlpool Corp.: Structuring the Deal to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his pathbreaking book View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 18 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 18, 2016

difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. For the organized portion of the manufacturing sector, we find that GQ led to improvements in both urban and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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